Posted on 05/06/2010 9:22:20 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
While I do not agree with the political slant to the article I do agree that our law enforcement in this country is borderline out of control.
Well we could always bring back Roman Gladiators to keep folks like you entertained.
Who knew the ump was packin’?
We could also feed those accused of jay walking to the lions while were at it...
Best not to break the law, I suppose.
I am just plain damn tired of criminals.
Period.
I don’t care if they’re in Congress or running on the field in Philly. I want them in jail and I don’t give a damn if the police officer has to taser them to slap cuffs on them.
Good article.
I wonder how many residents of Florida there are that hasn’t been tazed yet.
It seems the cops down there have been shock crazy the past 10 years.
If some clown ever tazed me i would track him down eventually and make sure his life is not so good.
ya know, after that ignorant bastard forced himself to projectile vomit on a Philadelphia Police Officer and his 11 year old daughter at a Phillies game a couple of weeks ago, this kid is lucky he didn’t get zapped by half a dozen tasers.
There are consequences for one’s actions, and the earlier kids these days learn that lesson, even if they insist on learning it the hard way, the better off they will be in the long run and the longer they will live.
Knowing how to behave in a civilized manner can often make the difference between life and death.
I don’t think the cop over-reacted. They were chasing down and attempting to remove a person who was disrupting a baseball game for thousands of other people. Who knows how long it would have taken to catch the guy, tackle him and possibly injure him physically tackling him, and having the exact same people who are bitching about him being tasered, bitch about excessive use of force catching the guy a different way.
People who do this are attention whores breaking the law. They have no right to do it I have no problem with how they were able to remove this person from his “Hey look at me!” moment and get the ball game going again for the rest of the people who came there to watch THAT, not this putz, in peace.
don’t taze me brow
So acting up in public is now a crime punishable by summary execution carried out immediately by uniformed executioners of the state, on the spot?
Wow.. welcome to Germany circa. 1933
Just Philly being Philly..
Well, somehow ballpark personnel has been able to handle this situation for 100 years without the tazer.
Besides, everytime i’ve been to a ballgame and some clown runs on the feild the fans seem to love it.
I remember being at a Red Sox game around 1986 or so. the Sox were like 15 games out of first.
It was pathetic, even 15 games out Fenway always sells out.
There must of been like 7 guys running out there during the game.
The game itself was a joke and the fans seemed to love it.
Next thing you know i will be tazed just for laughing.
Let me set out the reality: Law enforcement has no way of determining in the moment whether any unauthorized person on the field is just an idiot kid or a potential terrorist (see Times Square Bomber, suicide bombers, or the lunatic who knifed Steffi Graf).
The taser brings down the idiot quick and with no permanent damage.
Just watch the George Lucas-directed 1971 sci-fi film called, “THX 1138.” In it the robocops use cattle prods to keep the population in check. Tasers are just human versions of cattle prods.
I would support tasers if they used them on politicians and bureaucrats, but they don’t. They are an instrument for intimidating the population. The cops are going to have to decide whose side they are on.
He tries to drag in Bush era torture when, by now, most people understand that cutting off people's heads is torture; making them wear women's underwear isn't.
He gets off the snappy one-liner that "people aren't illegal" and thinks he's really got us. Of course, he's referring to illegal... I think the term is "aliens" and in fact, yes, people can be aliens and when they are trespassing in someone else's territory they would be "illegal aliens". Aliens, you see, who are trespassing and hence, illegally so.
Is it totalitarian to ask foreign visitors to show their identification? Maybe it is in his on-line Civ simu-world, but in the real world, in every country in the world foreigners are required to carry their passports and produce them on demand. And in the countries most of our visitors come from, even citizens are required to carry their national ID and produce it on demand. The people he hates to call "illegal" know this because thats where they are from. Furthermore it doesn't hurt their feelings to call them illegal because they know they are illegal.
If he goes to visit the country of their birth he had better carry his papers with him while he's there.
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